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The Act made special provision for the River Thames and Lee Conservancy catchment boards, enabling them to act as if they were river authorities and their catchment areas were river authority areas. There was also special provision for parts of London , defined as the London excluded area under section 125 of the Act.
This category lists local government authorities which adjoin the River Thames in England. It includes both London boroughs and Unitary authorities outside London. Some of these authorities are referred to as "riparian" as they have riparian interests such as flood prevention. They share interests such as the Thames Landscape Strategy.
The River Thames (/ t ɛ m z / ⓘ TEMZ), known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom , after the River Severn .
The London or 'Crow' Stone at Chalkwell, Southend, which formerly marked the seaward limit of the authority of the City of London.. London Stone is the name given to a number of boundary stones that stand beside the rivers Thames and Medway, which formerly marked the limits of jurisdiction (riparian water rights) of the City of London.
Human-made embankments are backed by reclaimed wetland grazing areas, but rising sea levels may make it necessary briefly to flood some of that land at spring tides, to take the pressure off the defences and main watercourses. The Blackwater Estuary, on the Essex coast, in the northern part of the Greater Thames Estuary. Mersea Island is on the ...
Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, APHug, AP Human, HuGS, AP HuGo, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [1]
The Thames Conservancy was subsumed into the Thames Water Authority in 1974. With the privatization of water supply in 1990 the river management functions passed to the new National Rivers Authority and in 1996 to the Environment Agency. Only Richmond Lock remains under the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority.
The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority is a body based in London, Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1947. It was created in 1947. It was responsible for the construction of the Fanshawe Dam , completed in the 1950s, to control flooding from the Thames River , which runs through London.